When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine;
you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
Philip Moffit
Category: Be fully present
The most precious thing
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhard Tolle
Sunday Quote: No dress rehearsal
Treat every moment as your last.
It is not a preparation for something else.
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Not noticing
Our attitude is frequently one of wanting to get it done, wanting to have it finished in order to be peaceful, to relax, or to enjoy ourselves….
We want to be a feeling.
Rushing along to be something in the next moment,
we fail to open and appreciate this moment
Ajahn Sucitto, Turning the wheel of Truth
photo US fish and wildlife services
Aware of patterns
We all have well-established habits of thought, emotion, reaction and judgement,
and without the keen awareness of practice, we’re just acting out these patterns.
When they arise, we’re not aware they’ve arisen.
We get lost in them, identify with them, act on them
— so much of our life is just acting out patterns.
Joseph Goldstein
A way of working with stress
Can you accept the moments of anger and fear as guests,
be willing to receive them with kindness
without feeling obliged to serve them a five-course meal?
Christina Feldman
